The Night
La notte, feature film, drama, Italy, France, 1961
DIRECTED BY: Michelangelo Antonioni
CAST:
Marcello Mastroianni (Giovanni Pontano),
Jeanne Moreau (Lidia),
Monica Vitti (Valentina Gherardini),
Bernhard Wicki (Tommaso Garani),
Rosy Mazzacurati (Rosy)
SCRIPT:
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Tonino Guerra,
Ennio Flaiano
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Gianni Di Venanzo
MUSIC:
Giorgio Gaslini
EDITING:
Eraldo Da Roma
Synopsis:
The story is about a married couple – a successful writer, Giovanni Pontano,
and his wife, Lidia. We see them on an afternoon visit to a dying friend in a
hospital, at a party for Pontano’s newest novel, in a house of a wealthy
industrialist and finally in their own nightly adventures - Lidia roams the
streets of Rome, while her husband has an affair with the industrialist’s
daughter…This film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival.
b/w, 122'